James topping the list by a significant margin when the likes of Mickey Mantle and Michael Jordan have long been seen as the kings of the sports card world may raise some eyebrows, but his priciest card to date does include Jordan on it.
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Larry Holder,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2026
Anthony Hopkins has played villains and popes, presidents and dictators, titans of literature and comic book kings.
The couples worked together through The Royal Foundation and delighted the public whenever the princes and their partners stepped out together.
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Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2026
At the beginning of the Arcadia, one of the princes, Musidorus, courts Pamela, one of the sister-princesses, by communicating to her that his shepherd apparel is just a disguise.
In Italy, the worst drought in 70 years has exposed the piers of an ancient bridge over the Tiber River once used by Roman emperors but which fell into disrepair by the third century.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
20 Aug. 2026
The wreck also contained gold coins issued by four emperors of the Heraclian dynasty, which ruled the Byzantine Empire during the seventh and eighth centuries.
Countless speakers left the Pale of Settlement – the territory in Eastern Europe where Jews had been granted permission to live under an edict of the Russian czars.
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Ilan Stavans,
The Conversation,
31 Aug. 2026
For generations, the Sea had been the lifeblood of the Karakalpak people, who lived as seminomadic pastoralists under various rulers, including khanates, tsars, the USSR, and now independent Uzbekistan.
Before him, Olav and Märtha had had two daughters, princesses Ragnhild and Astrid, but at the time, the law of succession excluded women from the throne.
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Stefania Conrieri,
Vanity Fair,
28 Aug. 2026
As a young man, Harald was urged to find a bride among Europe's noblewomen and princesses.
Venice’s 83rd edition is packed with films focused on right-wing media moguls and the crackdown on immigration, on the conflicts in Israel, Iran and Russia, on the abuses of capitalism and the rise of authoritarian power.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2026
While Niehku Mountain Villa operates as a hotel, buyouts ($11,000/night) are common and a mere drop in the nearby Norwegian Ofotfjord for Nordic media moguls who frequent the property and just can’t stand another faux luxury hotel.
In fact, challenging the rules of the digital road the tech lords have lucratively paved for themselves, the cases are but three of more than 2,000 such suits moving through a plethora of courts across the land against social media companies.
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Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
8 July 2026
Much of this episode focused on Rhaenyra’s uncomfortable interactions with various lords and ladies in King’s Landing, from a hostile High Septon to Lord Corlys Velaryon to her new dragonriders.
The idea came from architect Hal Hayes, who was inspired bythe Great Pyramid of Giza, where a pharaoh built a row of smaller pyramids alongside it for his queens, as Hayes told the Fire Island Pines Historical Society.
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Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
28 Aug. 2026
Cabins come in four different configurations, with either one queen bed or two queens bunked on top of each other—the latter would be great for small families—and have a maximum capacity of four guests.
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